Quote #8

Only they who can keep their heart strong and their will as sharp as a sword when the general disillusionment is at its worst can be regarded as a fighter for the working class or called a revolutionary.

More from Antonio Gramsci

  1. The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
  2. The old world is dying away, and the new world struggles to come forth: now is the time of monsters.
  3. We can see that in putting the question 'what is man?' what we mean is: what can man become? That is, can man dominate his own destiny, can…
  4. To tell the truth is revolutionary.
  5. History is at once freedom and necessity.
  6. Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideo…
  7. The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid s…
  8. All men are intellectuals: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

All Antonio Gramsci quotes